LATEST NEWS FROM EDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
Edale Team Rescue Climber And 2 Walkers In Busy Weekend
Monday 12th September 2011 On Saturday at 3pm Derbyshire Police called out the team to a climbing accident at Curbar Edge.
As is commonplace at the weekend, two-team vehicles were already crewed participating in team activities. The first team members were on scene within 20 minutes of being alerted by the police.
On attending it was found that a male climber had fallen approximately 20 feet / 6 metres whilst leading a route in the Avalanche Wall area. READ MORE...
A Busy Weekend
Monday 23rd May 2011 Edale Mountain Rescue Team has had another busy weekend with three rescues over Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday 21st, the Edale team was called to Bamford Edge to assist an air ambulance crew with a climber who was suffering an acute medical problem causing severe headaches. Due to the urgent nature of the situation, team members evacuated the casualty rapidly to the helicopter above the edge in a vacuum mattress, rather than the normal procedure of using the stretcher as well. READ MORE...
Who Are Edale Mountain Rescue Team?
Monday 23rd May 2011 If you're out in the Peak District these are the people you hope you won't need to meet.
Every year however, Edale Mountain Rescue Team provides a vital search and rescue service to a large part of the Peak District, North East Derbyshire, and the edges of Sheffield, bringing pre-hospital medical care and specialist search expertise to people who are injured or ill away from the road.
Locally they're members of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation, and nationally part of Mountain Rescue England & Wales. READ MORE...
Edale Mountain Rescue Annual Raffle Drawn In Sheffield
Thursday 7th October 2010 Edale Mountain Rescue's 2010 raffle was drawn at the Sheffield branch of Decathlon, the sports retailer on Sunday 3rd October. The raffle is a major fundraising activity for them and regularly contributes more than £1,000 to the team funds.
Decathlon generously donated the top prize of £300 in vouchers to be used in the store and the winning tickets were drawn by Store Manager Richard Nuttall.
Like other MRTs in England and Wales, the team receives no financial support from National or Local Government. READ MORE...
